Postgraduate Conference Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester. Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Dr Laura Mee and Dr Johnny Walker The Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre, De Montfort University, invites postgraduates and early career researchers to its seventh annual postgraduate conference.

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**Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre, De Montfort
University, Leicester.**

**Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Dr Laura Mee and Dr Johnny Walker**

The Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre, De Montfort
University, invites postgraduates and early career researchers to its
seventh annual postgraduate conference.

2018 marks the 200-year anniversary of Mary Shelley's seminal novel
*Frankenstein,* so join us in celebrating all things monstrous as we
re-consider, interrogate and offer new approaches to the genres of
Horror and Science-Fiction on screen.  In light of the recent burgeoning
of these genres in mainstream film and television, such as the Duffer
Brother's Netflix series *Stranger Things* (2016-), Charlie Brooker's
*Black Mirror* (2011-), and Oscar winners *The Shape of Water* (Del
Toro, 2017) and *Get Out* (Peele, 2016)*,* Horror and Sci-Fi are gaining
new audiences across multiple platforms. Therefore, it seems a pertinent
time to interrogate the tensions and emergent trends in these two
persevering and continually developing genres onscreen.

**Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:**

- Female directors and women in horror
- Screening violence (exploitation and slasher films)
- Social/political/cultural representations of fear in the Horror/
 Sci-Fi film
- Texts -- remakes, paratexts, and adaptations
- Relationships between human and machine, technology replacing the
 monster
- Monstrous representations of gender and the body
- Unmade Horror and Sci-Fi
- Representations of disability in Sci-Fi and Horror
- Fandom and audiences
- Transnational production contexts of Sci-Fi and Horror cinema
- Use of special effects and prosthetics in Sci-Fi and Horror
- New Readings of classic Horror and Sci-Fi cinema
- Nostalgia in Horror and Sci-Fi
- Depictions of race in Sci-Fi and Horror

Proposals for twenty-minute presentations should include the title of
the presentation, a 250-word abstract, and a brief biographical
statement. Proposals should be submitted to <cath.postgrad@gmail.com> by
**Friday 13th April 2017**. Applicants will receive a response by **late
April**.

##### Keynote Speaker Information:

**Dr Laura Mee** is a Lecturer in Film and Television at the University
of Hertfordshire. Laura's research interests are in horror media and
adaptation. She has produced a number of journal articles and chapters
on these topics, and is the author of *Devil's Advocates: The Shining*
(2017), as well as is in preparation for her new monograph *Reanimated:
The Contemporary American Horror Remake* (2019).

**Dr Johnny Walker** is a Senior Lecturer in Media at Northumbria
University, he has published widely on horror and exploitation cinema,
and is co-editor of the *Global Exploitation Cinema* book series. He is
also the writer of *Contemporary British Horror Cinema: Industry, Genre
and Society* (2015) and co-edited *Snuff: Real Death and Screen Media*
(2016).

Postgraduate Conference


 Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester.


 Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Dr Laura Mee and Dr Johnny Walker

The Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre, De Montfort University, invites postgraduates and early career researchers to its seventh annual postgraduate conference.

CfP: conference &#8220;‘It Is True, We Shall Be Monsters’: New Perspectives on Horror, Science Fiction and the Monstrous Onscreen&#8221;. June 13, 2018 @ De Montfort University, Leicester (UK). Deadline: April 13, 2018.

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CfP: conference “‘It Is True, We Shall Be Monsters’: New Perspectives on Horror, Science Fiction and the Monstrous Onscreen”. June 13, 2018 @ De Montfort University, Leicester (UK). Deadline: April 13, 2018.